A decide on Monday ordered a competency analysis for a Vermont man charged final week with beating his father to dying and significantly injuring his mom with a baseball bat.
Jordan Lawyer, 29, entered not responsible please to second diploma homicide, aggravated assault, and eluding police, the VT Digger reported.
Prosecutors say Lawyer bashed his father, 54-year-old Todd Lawyer, to dying Friday morning at their house in Enosburgh. He severely injured his 58-year-old mom, Robin Lawyer, within the assault, after which fled the scene in his mother and father’ Jeep Grand Cherokee, charging paperwork say.
He later crashed the Jeep into one other car and was taken into custody, Police discovered a bloody baseball bat within the car.
Choose Allison Arms ordered the youthful man held with out bond pending possible trigger listening to and ordered the competency analysis. Lawyer has twice earlier than been discovered incompetent to face trial on fees that he attacked his mother and father, most not too long ago in 2022.
Prosecutors mentioned final week’s incident started when Robin Lawyer known as 911 shortly earlier than 9 a.m. on Friday and mentioned her son was burning furnishings and smashing home windows on the house the household shared, charging paperwork say. Moments later, the paperwork say, a neighbor known as and mentioned that Todd Lawyer had been shot and Robin Lawyer injured.
Officers rushed to the scene and located Todd Lawyer useless on the bottom exterior his house. Robin Lawyer had accidents to her forearm and brow. She mentioned that she and her husband had come house that morning to search out their son burning furnishings within the entrance yard.
Later, after she was taken to a hospital, she mentioned that Todd Lawyer, who had picked up a bat to guard himself, advised Jordan he must transfer out of the house. Jordan grabbed a bat after which struck his father.
The mom mentioned she tried to cease the beating, however the son stored hitting each her and his father, and he or she ultimately locked herself in the home and known as 911.
She was reported in secure situation on Friday; her situation on Monday was not identified.
Jordan Lawyer faces life in jail if he’s convicted of the fees in opposition to him.
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[Featured image: Jordan Lawyer/Vermont State Police]